Light the first of eight tonight—
the farthest candle to the right.
Light the first and second, too,
when tomorrow’s day is through.
Then light three, and then light four—
every dusk one candle more
Till all eight burn bright and high,
honoring a day gone by
When the Temple was restored,
rescued from the Syrian lord,
And an eight-day feast proclaimed—
The Festival of Lights—well named
To celebrate the joyous day
when we regained the right to pray
to our one God in our own way.
A few random poems:
- Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! poem – John Keats poems
- София Парнок – Белой ночью
- Love by Robert Creeley
- To a foil’d European Revolutionaire. by Walt Whitman
- The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
- Locksley Hall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Огарев – Она никогда его не любила
- Absence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Низами Гянджеви – О кипарис с плавной поступью мри
- Auntie’s Skirts by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Form Of Women by Robert Creely
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves by William Butler Yeats
- Ahmad Al-Za’tar by Mahmoud Darwish
- Coal-Truck by T. Wignesan
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
